lesson 6 dealing with the dellta

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Welcome to the Bangladesh Delta.

What do you think about your new holidaydestination?

Oh my

crops Are ruined!

Why did I build myhouse here?

Have I got

Any insurance?
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Most of Bangladesh lies less than 10 metresabove sea level. The DELTA and the

FLOODPLAIN of the Ganges and Brahmaputracover 97,000 square miles. Over 90 millionpeople live within this area. Floods in 1987

covered 40% of Bangladesh and in 1988 they

covered 62 %.

Would youlike to

change

places withme?

Read the article, on the 2003 floods

What are the risks of living here?

Try to list 5
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Look at the next 10 slides which showimages of life on the Bangladesh Delta.

Some images show ways people use theriver and others show how they copewith/manage the river

Put the slideNumber in the Appropriate

Column of YourTable.

Using the river Coping with theriver


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Look at the 10 slides again. Match the

words with the most appropriate slides. living devastation

shelter transport farming washing

communication

fishing harvesting flooding drought salinisation

watersource/irrigation

Some wordsmight go with

more than oneslide


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You have seen the issues and the ways peopleuse this river. What do you think the local

people think of their river?Oh, my riverOf unfathomed water,I am floating in you for ever;Your tidal boreHas swept away my shore.

On a shoal I tryTo settle in vainI am swept away again.

A broken homesteadMay be rebuilt again ;

A broken heartShall never regain.

The heart that ebbs outSeldom flows in again.

When the river erodes,It strikes one shore;When the heart breaks,It shatters all the cores.

1. What does this poem mean?2. Identify the river language eg. erodes.

3. How difficult is the river to control?


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Now write your own poem Try to use language from last lesson about the Delta sediment, silt, floodwaters, brackish, turbulent, tidal, estuarine,

deposition, old age Include how people use the river and manage the river

remember the images and your list of words.

living, devastation, shelter, transport, farming,washing, communication, harvesting, flooding,

drought, salinisation, fishing, water source, irrigation

BE PREPARED TO SHARE YOUR POEM.

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